8 x Wych Elm (Ulmus glabra) Group Tree Reduction. Standing at a 20 meter + height to the west of the property, the trees are screening winter sun light before lunch time reducing and shading the rear garden in the summer afternoons, shading the back rooms of the house. The group of Elm’s were originally mature Elm’s, but …

Cherry Self seeder Clearing an old scrap yard for development and we came across this amazing self seeder, a mature Cherry tree (Prunus spp) in an old oven. Was it from a Cherry Pie? Photos by Adrian, a Pembrokeshire Tree Surgeon’s Busman’s Holiday in Coventry with his son Joshua. The arching of main stem is most likely as …

This Oak (Quercus robur) was formally a hedgerow tree and has been previously worked on 20 years ago or more, with large limbs (scaffold limbs) to the the lower canopy being removed to the left and write of the photo. A Visual Tree Assessment (VTA) was carried out, issues were monitored and a maintenance plan …

Scientific name: Laetiporus sulphurous Common name: Chicken of the woods, Sulphur polypore Photos and words by Adrian Dowling, a Pembrokeshire Tree Surgeon 0f Arb-Aid Tree Care Specialists. Part of a Visual Tree Assessment (VTA) that was carried out in late summer last. Brown rot was evident on this veteran Oak (Quercus robur) with a major stem removed or …

The Beech (Fagus syvatica) is part of a woodland with a tree canopy adventure course. The woodland canopy to the west had been altered after a mature Beech stem failure from Ganoderma adspersum . To minimise the added wind dynamics to the trees canopy, the canopy was reduced down by 3m. This will reduce the …

Sycamore (Acer psuedoplatanus), 22m tree thinned 20% and reducing the height by 3m. Thinning out brought the canopy back from the garden, letting more light in and maintaining a good screen/privacy from the multi-storey carpark. The canopy to the left is a little bare, from removing branches damaged from squirrels eating the bark to get …

Tenby, Trafalgar rd, looking east towards St Mary’s Church. Tenby, Trafalgar rd, looking south to Culver park. Photo’s taken by Adrian a Pembrokeshire Tree Surgeon, whilst thinning the Sycamore tree by 20%. See canopy reduction blog for before and after shots of the mature Sycamore.

Late May and a fellow Bee keeper’s apiary is being inspected by the National Bee Unit (NBU< Animal & plant health agency) for American foul brood (AFB) and European foul brood (EFB), see below for info. Thank you to Dr Roger Burns for inviting me to his apiary in Pembrokeshire to learn more about Bee …